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Brief History. The Portuguese arrived in the central African region intent on expanding their slave trading interests, but Portuguese power weakened and the French began to assume supremacy in western Africa. The Congo achieved full independece in 1960, one year after becoming autonomous. The Congo became a People's Republic, with Marxist-Leninist leanings. After a series of government changes, the Congo took steps towards the formation of a multiparty democracy in 1990. Opposition parties were officially legalized in 1991 with presidential elections in 1992. But in 1997, fighting broke out in the capital when the president tried to have his principal opponent arrested just prior to new elections.
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